Example sentences of "[verb] been taken up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something like a third of the increase has been taken up in higher prices , with the prices of some capital goods , such as houses , actually doubling . |
| 2 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 3 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 4 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 5 | His case has been taken up by Justice , the all- party law reform group . |
| 6 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 7 | With the almost total demise of these courses , the running has been taken up by the education sector with an increasingly comprehensive variety of accredited programmes . |
| 8 | Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire , and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated ; he calls this the ‘ Buzby effect ’ . |
| 9 | Even rented accommodation has been taken up almost exclusively by incomers : company allowances and incomers ' higher salaries generally have meant that rents have increased and that incomers tend to be given preference as tenants . |
| 10 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 11 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 12 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 13 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 14 | Ever since punk brought fetishwear on to the street , S&M imagery has been taken up by the mainstream . |
| 15 | The system has been taken up in many countries , including the USA , UK and Australia , but effective evaluation has still to be done . |
| 16 | Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA . |
| 17 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 18 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 19 | The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists . |
| 20 | John has devised a system of tooling for turning nests of bowls , which he presented at the Loughborough seminar and has been taken up and will be marketed in the near future . |
| 21 | And , regrettably , this demand has been taken up by people everywhere and applied to themselves or their partners — sometimes with disastrous consequences in relationships and to sexual potency . |
| 22 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 23 | This formulation has been taken up by Poulantzas , Carchedi and others . |
| 24 | The ‘ social divisions ’ theme has been taken up in another way by some recent feminist writers who have been concerned to show not merely that many welfare provisions discriminate against women , but also that female services within the family and neighbourhood form crucial separate welfare systems , enhanced in importance when other systems fail or are withdrawn . |
| 25 | In what represents a text book case of technology transfer , it has been taken up by major operators in the pharmaceutical and general chemical industries such as SmithKline Beecham , Foster Wheeler and Monsanto . |
| 26 | Now it is , now this matter has been taken up on behalf of the company , by the constitutary European Member of Parliament John Tomlinson and colleagues . |
| 27 | The accompanying suggestion that we send round an additional sheet giving dates of events , at least within the area , has been taken up . |
| 28 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 29 | The current status of computers and microcomputers in R&D , and the probable course of development in their use , is a more useful area of study and has been taken up by a group at Manchester Business School , UK ( Morse , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | The question of exclusion of non-eligibles from in-kind transfer has been taken up by Toumanoff ( 1986 ) . |